Martin Brüne was born in Dortmund in 1962. After studying medicine at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, he received his PhD in 1989 and also trained as a specialist in neurology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy. From 1998 Brüne was senior physician at the Center for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Ruhr-University Bochum Clinic. In 2000 he received his habilitation and the venia legendi for psychiatry. The topic of the habilitation thesis was "Evolutionary biological aspects of psychotic disorders exemplified by erotomania". From November 2002 to October 2003 he was a research fellow at the Centre for the Mind, Australian National University & University of Sydney. His research interests include evolutionary psychology and psychopathology.

Publications (selection):

• M. Social cognition and psychopathology in an evolutionary perspective—current status and proposals for research. Psychopathology 34 (2001) 85-94.
• Evolutionary fallacies of Nazi psychiatry: Implications for current research. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 44 (2001) 426-433.
• De Clérambault’s syndrome (erotomania) in an evolutionary perspective. Evolution and Human Behavior 22 (2001) 409-415.
• Brüne M, Ribbert H. Grundsätzliches zur Konzeption einer evolutionären Psychiatrie. Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie 153 (2002) 4-11.
• Toward an integration of interpersonal and biological processes: evolutionary psychiatry as an empirically testable framework for psychiatric research. Psychiatry. Interpersonal and Biological Processes 65 (2002) 48-57.
• Schizophrenia—an evolutionary enigma? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 28 (2004) 41-53.
•  ‘Theory of mind’ in schizophrenia: A review of the literature. Schizophrenia, Bulletin (2005).
• Brüne M, Ribbert H, Schiefenhövel W. (ed.) The Social Brain—Evolution and Pathology. John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, 2003.
• Brüne M, Payk TR (ed.) Sozialdarwinismus, Genetik und Euthanasie— Menschenbilder in der Psychiatrie. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft: Stuttgart Leipzig, 2004.
• Brüne M. Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry. The Origins of Psychopathology. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2008.
• Juckel G, Brüne M, Assion H-J (ed.) Schizophrenie-Therapie in der Praxis – Faktoren für den Therapieerfolg. Lorch, UniMed Verlag, 2008.
• Brüne M. Sind psychische Störungen etwas spezifisch Menschliches? Nervenarzt 80 (2009) 252-262.
• Brüne M, Salter F, McGrew WC (ed.) Building Bridges between Anthropology, Medicine and Human Ethology: Tributes to Wulf Schiefenhövel. Brückenschlag zwischen Anthropologie, Medizin und Humanethologie: Beiträge zu Wulf Schiefenhövels Leben und Werk. The University Press Bochum: Bochum, 2010.
• Mavrogiorgou P, Brüne M, Juckel G. Ärztlich-therapeutisches Vorgehen bei psychiatrischen Notfällen. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 108 (2011) 222-230.

Website:

http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/martin.bruene/